Khoros incident
Virus scan stuck in progress for all attachments
Khoros experienced a minor incident on December 8, 2025 affecting US Hosted Communities and EU Hosted Communities, lasting 3d 12h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Dec 08, 2025, 04:06 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue where the virus scan stuck in progress for all attachments.
- identified Dec 08, 2025, 04:27 PM UTC
The issue has been identified, and our team is working on deploying a potential fix in stages, starting with the Staging, Demo and Preproduction instances.
- identified Dec 08, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC
Demo, Stage, and APAC communities have been updated with a fix for this issue. The fix is rolling out for EMEA communities now, and US communities will follow during the assigned maintenance window.
- identified Dec 09, 2025, 02:32 AM UTC
The fix rollout for EMEA has been completed now. The fix for US communities will follow in assigned maintenance window.
- identified Dec 09, 2025, 07:06 AM UTC
We have determined that the earlier fix did not fully resolve the antivirus scanning issue. Our team is now implementing an enhanced solution designed to address all remaining edge cases.
- identified Dec 09, 2025, 03:28 PM UTC
Our Engineering team has released a new version internally to fix this issue. It will be rolled out to EU Prod Hosted communities shortly, we will update when we have finished the rollout.
- identified Dec 09, 2025, 05:58 PM UTC
We have deployed a fix that we believe has fixed the issue for EMEA, we are currently monitoring and validating it. We will follow with the roll-out to APAC region shortly after validation.
- identified Dec 09, 2025, 07:25 PM UTC
We have validated the fix for the EMEA region, and will proceed with the deployment for the APAC region.
- monitoring Dec 09, 2025, 08:21 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented for all regions and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring Dec 10, 2025, 04:00 AM UTC
All regions are working fine currently. We are continuing to monitor.
- monitoring Dec 11, 2025, 04:02 AM UTC
All regions are operating normally at this time; monitoring is ongoing.
- resolved Dec 12, 2025, 04:09 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.